Internet-pad operating system and applications and internet-pad for digital output

A method for outputting digital content from an Internet-Pad to an output device over a wireless communication, said Internet-Pad being a digital Pad with access to the Internet and the digital Pad being further a wireless mobile information apparatus, the Internet-Pad including:

• a touch sensitive screen,
• an graphical user interface for interacting with a user over the touch sensitive screen,
• a processing unit,
• a memory unit for storing at least part of digital content and one or more applications, the one or more applications including:
• a document creation or document editing application,
• an e-mail application,
• an Internet browsing application installed or included in the Internet-Pad, with access to digital document or digital content,
• an operating system in the Internet-Pad providing an object model or an application programming interface to facilitate said e-mail application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application access to an output service, and
• output manager software for managing output of the digital content to the output device, and
• a wireless communication unit that includes a radio frequency controller for establishing radio frequency wireless communication between the Internet-Pad and one or more wireless output devices that are distinct devices from the Internet-Pad, the method comprising:
• discovering, with the wireless communication unit of the Internet-Pad over wireless communication, one or more wireless output devices;
• receiving, over the graphical user interface of the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Pad, at least an indication related to a selected wireless output device from among the one or more wireless output devices discovered over wireless communication with the wireless communication unit;
• obtaining authentication or security information at the Internet-Pad;
• sending from the Internet-Pad the authentication or security information through the wireless communication unit of the Internet-Pad and over radio frequency wireless communication for authenticating access to the selected wireless output device;
• establishing a secure radio frequency wireless connection between the Internet-Pad and the selected wireless output device for output of the digital content directly from the Internet-Pad to the selected wireless output device, the established secure wireless connection not including an external output server between the Internet-Pad and the selected wireless output device;
• receiving at least an indication of a selected digital document or digital content over the graphical user interface of the Internet-Pad from the user with the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Pad;
• passing at least part of the selected digital document or digital content from the one or more applications in the Internet-Pad that includes said e-mail application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application to the output manager software in the Internet-Pad, the passing of at least part of the digital document or digital content being facilitated by the object model or the application programming interface provided by the Internet-Pad operating system;
• generating, by the output manager software in the Internet-Pad, an output data from the digital document or digital content received from the one or more applications, the output data being in accordance to a format, a language or an instruction suitable for sending to the selected wireless output device over the established secure wireless communication connection, and said generating the output data from the digital document or digital content includes an encoding operation or a compression operation;
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• sending, through the wireless communication unit of the Internet-Pad, and over the secure wireless communication connection, the output data to the selected wireless output device for output of the digital document or digital content;
• whereby, each of said e-mail application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application are enabled to output at least part of the digital document or digital content from the Internet-Pad to the selected wireless output device over the secure wireless communication connection established directly between the Internet-Pad and the selected wireless output device.

In an Internet-Pad, Internet-Pad system software containing a program of commands executable by a processor in the Internet-Pad to facilitate output of digital content from the Internet-Pad to a wireless output device, said Internet-Pad being a digital Pad with access to Internet and the digital pad being further a wireless mobile information apparatus, the Internet-Pad including:

• a touch sensitive screen,
• a graphical user interface for interacting with a user over the said touch sensitive screen,
• a processing unit,
• a memory unit for storing at least part of the digital content and one or more application, the one or more applications including:
• a document creation or document editing application,
• an e-mail application,
• an Internet browsing application installed or included in the Internet-Pad, with access to the digital document or digital content, and
• output manager software for encoding digital content into an output data suitable for sending to an output device, and
• a wireless communication unit that includes a radio frequency controller for establishing radio frequency wireless communication between the Internet-Pad and one or more wireless output devices that are distinct devices from the Internet-Pad, the Internet-Pad system software being further executable by the processor at the Internet-Pad to:
• discover, at the Internet-Pad, one or more wireless output devices via wireless communication with the wireless communication unit;
• receive from the graphical user interface at least an indication of a selected wireless output device from the user through the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Pad;
• obtain an authentication or security information at the Internet-Pad;
• send the authenticating or security information over radio frequency wireless communication from the Internet-Pad to the selected wireless output device for authenticating access to the selected wireless output device;
• establish a secure radio frequency wireless connection between the Internet-Pad and the selected wireless output device for output of the digital content directly from the Internet-Pad to the selected wireless output device, the established secure wireless connection not including an external output server between the Internet-Pad and the selected wireless output device;
• provide an object model or application programming interface to said one or more applications in the Internet-Pad that includes said e-mail application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application;
• receive from the graphical user interface at least an indication of a selected digital content from the user through the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Pad;
• receive at least an indication of at least part of a selected digital content from one or more applications that includes said e-mail application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application;
• receive at least part of a selected digital content from the one or more applications in the Internet-Pad that includes said e-mail application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application over the object model or application programming interface;
• pass at least part of the selected digital content from one or more of the applications, which applications include said e-mail application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application, to the output manager software for generating output data from at least part of the selected digital content, the output data being in accordance to a format, language or instruction suitable for sending to the selected output device over the established wireless communication connection, and said generating the output data from the selected digital content including an encoding operation or a compression operation;
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• send, over the wireless communication connection through the wireless communication unit, the output data to the selected wireless output device for output of at least part of the selected digital content;
• whereby, the Internet-Pad system software enables each of said e-mail application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application included in the Internet-Pad, to output at least part of the selected digital content from the Internet-Pad to the selected wireless output device over a secure wireless communication connection established directly between the Internet-Pad and the selected wireless output device.

In an Internet-Pad, an output manager for managing output of digital content to a wireless output device, said Internet-Pad being a digital Pad with access to the Internet and the digital Pad further being a wireless mobile information apparatus having one or more applications with access to digital documents or digital content, the Internet-Pad includes:

• a touch sensitive screen,
• a digital camera for image data acquisition,
• a graphical user interface for interacting with a user over the said touch sensitive screen,
• a processing unit,
• a memory unit for storing at least part of the digital content and an Internet-Pad operating system having an object model or an application programming interface for communicating with the output manager, and
• a wireless communication unit that includes a radio frequency controller for establishing radio frequency wireless communication connection between the Internet-Pad and a selected wireless output devices that are distinct devices from the Internet-Pad, the established radio frequency wireless connection not including an external output server between the Internet-Pad and the selected wireless output device, the output manager in the Internet-Pad further comprising software, including:
• software for communicating with the operating system of the Internet-Pad over the object model or the application programming interface provided by the Internet-Pad operating system;
• software for receiving, by the output manager in the Internet-Pad, from the graphical user interface, at least an indication related to the selected output device from the user over the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Pad;
• software for obtaining, by the output manager, an authentication or security information at the Internet-Pad,
• software for receiving, by the output manager, from the graphical user interface, at least an indication related to a selected digital content from the user over the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Pad;
• software for receiving, by the output manager in the Internet-Pad, at least part of the digital content;
• software for receiving, by the output manager, at the Internet-Pad and over said established radio frequency wireless connection one or more components or data from the selected wireless output device, the one or more components or data from the selected wireless output device being related to sending output data from the Internet-Pad to the selected wireless output device, and the established radio frequency wireless connection not including an external output server between the Internet-Pad and the selected wireless output device;
• software for conforming, by the output manager, the digital content into an output data, the output data being in accordance to a format, language or instruction suitable for sending to the selected wireless output device over the established radio frequency wireless communication connection, and said conforming the output data from the digital content includes an encoding operation or a compression operation;
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• software for sending, by the output manager, the output data for output of the digital content at the selected wireless output device over the radio frequency wireless communication connection, and the radio frequency wireless connection not including an external output server between the Internet-Pad and the selected wireless output device;
• whereby, the output manager software included in the Internet-Pad, comprising of a digital Pad with a touch sensitive screen and accessible to the Internet, enables the user to output at least part of the digital content from the Internet-Pad to the selected wireless output device over the established wireless communication connection directly between the Internet-Pad and the selected wireless output device.